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You are so right, Susan. One of the most demoralizing comments I heard from our principal in twenty-two years of work at the same day school was: The teachers are not our priority, it’s the students who make the school happen. It’s such beliefs and comments that lead to teachers’ job dissatisfaction, lack of innovation and creativity, and high turnover rates. While we all want better salaries, we really want collegial relationships and a supportive administration.

Thank you Susan- an awesome piece. This week’s Marshall Memo highlighted many of the questions and issues you bring to the forefront and this month’s EL magazine does the same. Kim Marshall shared this quote at the beginning of this week’s Memo-“School systems hire teachers because they are bright, creative, and independent, and then seem deeply disappointed because they turn out to be bright, creative, and independent.”
Douglas Reeves (see item #1)
I wonder what we are doing in our schools that helps continue to foster the very reason the teachers were hired in the first place-

Until we fix ‘low pay and prestige’ – our educators and our students will suffer.

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